Life's tough on the Montana Territory, especially for the three sisters running the Gallatin Roadhouse---guilt-ridden Gwen, romantic Beth, and headstrong Lacy. Gwen was married at 22, but her husband, Harvey, died 10 days later. When...
Frontier and pioneer life
- Author:Peterson, TracieSummary:
- Author:Gallaher, BillSummary:
“The Black Barber of Barkerville,” as Wellington Delaney Moses was known, came to British Columbia from San Francisco, looking for a new home and a place of peace. He was among the first black people to arrive in B.C., hoping that the...
- Author:Peterson, TracieSummary:
Beth Gallatin, who immersed herself in romance novels until her father's death, fulfills her dream to settle in a rugged Montana frontier town and considers her feelings for a man she has always regarded as a friend.
- Author:Streeter Aldrich, BessSummary:
Abbie Deal was born in Iowa during the 1800's. This novel tells how she moved to Nebraska as a bride and struggled with hardship and poverty to help her husband raise a family and provide for them.
- Author:Crew, LindaSummary:
Both young adults and adults will find appeal in this Oregon Trail novel. Lovisa and the rest of the extended King family join a wagon train in 1845. There's plenty of hardship and even death, but the family still has time to...
- Author:Vanderhaeghe, GuySummary:
Wesley Case is a former soldier and son of a Canadian lumber baron who sets out into the untamed borderlands between Canada and the United States to escape a dark secret from his past. He settles in Montana where he hopes to buy a...
- Author:Peterson, TracieSummary:
Peterson's enthralling tale spotlights Lacy Gallatin, a tomboy who feels out of place with her married sisters. Riding off in snow-covered darkness to seek the counsel of the only mother figure she's ever known, Lacy finds herself...
- Author:Jagears, MelissaSummary:
After three failed attempts, Everett Cline is not happy when another--uninvited--mail-order bride steps off the train in his Kansas farming community. But is she the wife he's been waiting for?
- Author:Mole, RichSummary:
From the days of the fur trade, one constant thread weaves its way through the tumultuous history of frontier British Columbia, Washington and Oregon—the war over liquor. Between 1840 and 1917, the whisky wars of the west coast were...